One Well: The Story of Water on Earth

Genre: Informational
Critiques: This is a great informational text because it presents, organizes, and interprets factual information in an engaging manner through various text features and beautiful visuals. More specifically, titles, subtitles, captions to images, charts, visuals, and an index are included to help readers navigate through the information of the text.
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One Well is a book describing how all the water across the earth is connect. The story begins from one well and gradually expands to all the resources that come from water. The book has an easy to understand layout with interesting facts isolated throughout the text for easier reading. An index is included at the back of the book. ( )

The book One Well talks about how all the water in the world is connected. I loved this book and would love to use it one of my classes. The illustrations in the book are also really good. The author gives specific percentages without being over powering. The book is very Eco-friendly and talks about recycling the water and how fresh water is moved. I like how the book is put together. I could see and recommend its use in a 5-9 class room depending on what’s being taught. ( )

This is a poetic, thorough overview of the importance of water on our planet. This book centers on the idea that all usuable water on our planet comes from one "well" that we must all share. There is a lot of information on water scarcity and pollution. I presented this analogy to my kindergarten science students and it was easily understandable to them. Unfortunately, the language was a bit too sophisticated and dense, so I ended up rephrasing a lot of it. The text would be great for grade 3 and up, though. ( )